You’ve been saying this celebrity’s name wrong this entire time

Gal Gadot may have smashed it as Wonder Woman recently but her kickass feminist role sadly only highlighted Hollywood’s gender pay gap again as the 32-year-old actress was paid a significantly lower salary for a superhero film, compared to her male counterparts.

And apparently we’ve also been saying her surname wrong this entire time.

The world has been pronouncing the actress’ name like ‘Gal Gah-doh’ but the Israeli actress recently cleared up the confusion on Jimmy Kimmel’s show by saying that it’s actually ‘Gal Gad-dot.’ Yes, like ‘dot’ so you’re meant to really pronounce the last ‘t’.

And, if your minds weren’t boggled enough, did you know that JK Rowling is actually pronounced JK Rolling? Or that Amanda Seyfried is actually Amanda Sigh-fred? And that Charlize Theron is pronounced Charlize Ther-in?

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